#302 - Cult Investigator: Satanic Rituals, Scientology & Israel-Palestine | Lawrence Wright

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Lawrence Wright is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of multiple books including "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief", and "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11". His newest book "The Human Scale" tells a story of an Israeli cop and a Palestinian-American FBI agent who join forces to solve the murder of an Israeli police chief in the West Bank.

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EPISODE LINKS

The Human Scale - https://a.co/d/62tQUig

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OUTLINE

00:00- Scientology's Sea Org

19:04- L. Ron Hubbard's deathbed confession

30:16- How has Scientology survived?

34:26- Jim Jones & the Jonestown Cult

43:36- The Sisters of Mary Morning Star

52:39- Fighting the death penalty

01:01:38- Satanic ritual abuse

01:17:26- Whitley Streiber's childhood experiments

01:22:58- Jack parsons

01:26:34- Why Lawrence gave up religion

01:36:40- The new Silicon Valley ideology

01:44:37- The Looming Tower

01:54:13- Did the FBI allow 9/11?

02:06:32- Where Bin Laden got his money

02:16:52- 9/11 alternate theories

02:25:02- The Human Scale

02:37:30- American CIA vs. Israel's Mossad

02:44:58- Israel's troubled history

03:03:47- How Lawrence chooses projects

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